Missionary Gracia Burnham on Comprehending God

Missionary Gracia Burnham, who was held captive by terrorists in the Philippines for more than a year and whose husband was killed during the rescue, ...

God Beyond Our Understanding

Since it is God we are speaking of, you do not understand it. If you could understand it, it would not be God.

Man Can't Duplicate Creation

Biosphere 2 was an attempt to set up an isolated living environment that would supply all the factors necessary for sustaining life. It was to be a self-contained ...

God's Overwhelming Providence

Author Philip Yancey writes:

In high school, I took pride in my ability to play chess. I joined the chess club, and during lunch hour could be found sitting ...

The Miraculous Human Body

The average human heart pumps over 1,000 gallons a day, over 55 million gallons in a lifetime. This is enough to fill 13 super tankers. It never sleeps, ...

Figuring Out Providence

I get a little weary of these dear souls who have all the dealing and doing of Providence catalogued and correlated and figured out and can give you glib ...

Let the Lord Choose

Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is ...

When Down Is Up

In the movie The Poseidon Adventure, the ocean liner S.S. Poseidon is on the open sea when it hits a huge storm. Lights go out, smoke pours into rooms ...

Christ's Values Endure

Even those who have renounced Christ's way and attack it, in their innermost being still follow Christ's ideals, for hitherto neither their subtlety ...

Holy Contradictions

Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. The ordinary man has always been ...